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"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

— Adolf Galland The First and the Last (1954)

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The fighter must seek battle in the air.

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

The First and the Last (1954)

They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.

Superior technical achievements — used correctly both strategically and tactically — can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

The First and the Last (1954)

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

The First and the Last (1954)

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